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Etymologies

Examples

And afterwards, as if giving a particular direction to the above general statement, he adds: Those strange and mystical transmigrations that I have observed in silkworms turned my philosophy into divinity.

In the Saumur region of France there are over a thousand miles of underground tunnels and thousands of caves, known as "troglodytes," used as homes, hotels, restaurants, museums, wineries, farms silkworms, mushrooms, snails and even a disco and a zoo.

Audrun and Aramon Lunel grew up in one of these houses, which was once a family business that cultivated grain and silkworms but which has slowly collapsed into disrepair, not unlike the siblings themselves.